[Distutils] PEP 376 for Distutils

[P.J. Eby]

At 09:39 AM 2/24/2009 +0100, Joachim König wrote:
>could the egg-info directory be put somewhere else (as a 
>configuration/command line option)?

No, since it's used to identify the installed location of the code 
that goes with it, ala PEP 262.  In other words, sys.path is its own 
installation database.


>If the location of the egg-info dir and the encoding of the python 
>version and package
>version are only there for performance optimization reasons I'd 
>suggest to really decouple
>optimization from file naming and having a caching directory that 
>can compute an
>optimized representation once when an out-of-date situation is 
>detected (e.g. when new
>packages are installed) making the optimization even faster, e.g. by 
>having a file
>in suitable format instead of calling os.listdir() and iterating 
>over the result.

That would introduce the possibility of the cache being out of 
date.  See PEP 262.

(By the way, the Python version info isn't needed for this 
optimization; only the package version.)